Example sentences of "[noun] would [verb] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHADOW Health Secretary Dave Blunkett vowed that Labour would keep up the fight to stop the Tories ruining the NHS . |
| 2 | But it could also be used to their advantage in that how that erm absolute egalitarianism would speed up the process of land reform and eliminate feudalism whereas a moderate policy would just take ages for this to happen , so |
| 3 | Two Irish goals would bring up the century in Charlton 's seven-year reign , during which he has lost only nine of 69 full internationals . |
| 4 | The pact would speed up the privatisation of 4,000 medium-sized and small state enterprises by giving workers a greater say in running them . |
| 5 | Thus ‘ speculators ’ would buy undervalued currencies and sell overvalued ones , and in so doing would speed up the adjustment process . |
| 6 | ‘ Silver would put up the pirate 's flag , the Jolly Roger , ’ said Ben . |
| 7 | With November came the herring season and the boats would sail up the coast to Torbay , then back around Bigbury Bay and Plymouth , although a few boats continued to fish for pilchards from Looe throughout the Winter . |
| 8 | The girl in the chemist 's shop said the chemist would make up the prescription the minute he got back from the bank . |
| 9 | Such was the popularity of film and such was the reforming zeal of that first decade or so of the twentieth century that there must have been every possibility that other agencies would take up the chance of producing , distributing , and exhibiting films in their own halls . |
| 10 | NSA would pick up the call with their satellites ; the British GCHQ would get it ; so would the Russians … |
| 11 | ‘ Every room here has been booked since a year ago , and I was dearly hoping Donna would screw up the nerve to send her packing , but Mrs Foster happened by , and Matthew 's fiancée recognised her . |
| 12 | Oh yes yeah the skippers , the skippers would go up the town cos every time a ship used to come in they got , they got to take the their papers up to the agent , what the papers were I do n't really know might be a manifest or something like that , what they used to do I mean then you had erm and you had different agents now there 's more agents than ever now . |
| 13 | After winning the AAA multi-events championship at the Don Valley Stadium two weeks previously , the Border Harrier had hoped that a short rest would clear up the trouble . |
| 14 | The woman would pull up the sheet to her neck . |
| 15 | They had pointed out that a road in this area would open up the rainforest to clearance by settlers , with the consequent loss of habitat for gorillas , elephants and other threatened animal species , and the disruption of the livelihoods of traditional tribal peoples in the area . |
| 16 | Mr Mallard said he hoped their claim would open up the matter once more . |
| 17 | Many people would take up the opportunity to train in a completely new craft . |
| 18 | And for those who were n't … well , no doubt Luke Hunter would turn up the charm and devise some plausible enough explanation . |
| 19 | Marc would lap up the opportunity to use it against her . |
| 20 | The Right to Know Bill would open up the files of government and official bodies . |
| 21 | ( 4 ) The Less Formal Township Establishment Bill would speed up the creation and approval of new settlements , mainly squatter camps and shanties , ensuring minimum facilities . |
| 22 | Adding in the cost of the bus fare would jack up the APR to 33.7 per cent — more expensive than the local shop . |
| 23 | An alternative approach would break up the organisation according to some other criteria but implement each section in turn and allow for integration later . |
| 24 | Whenever she settled down , posed gracefully like a romantic heroine , Isolde or Deirdre , gazing wistfully out over the battlements south towards her beloved , her mother 's sharp voice would echo up the stair . |
| 25 | Or perhaps it was a booby-trapped cake and the whole thing would blow up the moment it was cut , taking Bruce Bogtrotter with it . |
| 26 | Jones , a £600,000 bargain buy from Crewe last October , hoped that rest over the summer would clear up the problem . |
| 27 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that higher taxes and minimum wages would put up the costs of British businesses , making them uncompetitive and costing them jobs ? |
| 28 | It would not make any difference if fluid was being poured into the funnel , but if the arrow traced the path of a ball-bearing dropped into the funnel then the baffle plate would speed up the descent of the ball into the tube part of the funnel , In the same way structural changes need to take account of what is to pass through the structure . |
| 29 | Opponents of the scheme fear that , as well as damaging the wildlife which depends on the llanos , including numerous birds and freshwater dolphins , the scheme would open up the forests of the south to mining , logging and settlement . |
| 30 | In ancient times , he said , deceitful sculptors would patch up the cracks with wax , but a man of integrity would make his statues without wax . |